9-Year-Old's Parents Got Ransom Note After She Vanished (Newser Morning 8)

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October 3, 2023     "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." —Walt Whitman   1 McCarthy's Fate Is Up to Democrats Matt Gaetz has made good on his threat to try to oust fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. Keep reading   2 9-Year-Old's Parents Got Ransom Note After She Vanished Before Charlotte Sena was found safe two days after disappearing while bicycling at a New York campground, the 9-year-old girl's parents received a ransom note at their home, authorities say. Keep reading   From our sponsors:   At a Glance Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier, who is one of this year's Nobel laureates in Physics, talks to journalists at Lund University in Sweden on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for looking at electrons in atoms by the tiniest of split seconds. (Ola Torkelsson/TT News Agency via AP) Keep reading   3 CDC May Soon Recommend Use of Popular Antibiotic to Prevent STIs There's now a "morning after" pill, of sorts, for the prevention of certain STIs within certain groups. Keep reading   4 Pope's Comments on Same-Sex Unions Make Waves Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda. Keep reading   5 Philadelphia Journalist Shot Dead at Home Josh Kruger, who went from being homeless and struggling with addiction to advocating for Philadelphia's most vulnerable as a journalist in the city, was fatally shot in his South Philadelphia home early Monday. Keep reading   6 Kansas Police Chief Who Raided Newspaper Office Resigns The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, just days after he was suspended from his post, a City Council member confirmed Monday. Keep reading   From our sponsors   7 Combative Trump Brings Campaign Flair to Courthouse Former President Trump has complained that court dates will pull him off the campaign trail, but he addressed the scheduling conflict on Monday by combining a campaign-rally attitude with a defendant's righteous anger at the New York courthouse where his civil fraud trial began. Keep reading   8 The 5 Killed in Illinois Crash Died of Exposure to Ammonia Preliminary autopsies on the five people who died after a semitruck overturned on an Illinois highway Friday night found that all five died from exposure to fumes after the tanker spilled anhydrous ammonia it was carrying. Keep reading   This Day in History On Oct. 3, 1995, the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. Find out what else happened on this date here.   From the Newser Archives On this day in 2019: Sperm Donor's 'Overwhelming' Find Leads to $5.25M Suit   Yesterday's Most-Read Stories   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2023 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved